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    The Pocket Hunting & Fishing Guide: Tips, Tactics, and Must-Have Gear
    The Pocket Hunting & Fishing Guide: Tips, Tactics, and Must-Have Gear
    The Pocket Hunting & Fishing Guide: Tips, Tactics, and Must-Have Gear
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    The Pocket Hunting & Fishing Guide: Tips, Tactics, and Must-Have Gear

    By Graham Moore

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    Hunters, fishers, campers, sportsmen . . . no matter your outdoor passion, Sportsmen’s Secrets, the handy guide to water and woodland wisdom, belongs in your kit. This conveniently sized and whimsical handbook will teach you all the top outdoor secrets, from crayfish catching to moose hunting, restoring rubber to dressing for dry days on the hunt. Plus, Sportsmen’s Secrets is packed to the brim with informative drawings and step-by-step illustrations.

    Sportsmen’s Secrets features:

    Intriguing info about hunting and the hunted
    Secrets of successfully keeping fish
    Natural bait riddles solved!
    How to forecast weather
    Secrets of canoe safety
    Downing that deer!
    Tips on clothing, gear, and what to wear
    Plus so much more to make your next outing to field or stream a success!

    Packed with pertinent details and accurate, easy-to-follow advice, this is the guide all sportsmen should carry when they head to the great outdoors.

    Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781629142722
    The Pocket Hunting & Fishing Guide: Tips, Tactics, and Must-Have Gear
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    Graham Moore

    Graham Moore is a New York Times bestselling novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter. His screenplay for The Imitation Game won the Oscar in 2015. His first novel, The Sherlockian, was published in 16 countries and translated into 13 languages. Graham was born in Chicago and now lives in Los Angeles.

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      The Pocket Hunting & Fishing Guide - Graham Moore

      Secrets of Telling One Trout from T’ other!

      American trout are divided into two basic groups, true trout and charrs. On all true trout the spots are darker than the body color, while on charrs the spots are lighter than the body color.

      Eastern Brook Trout, often called Squaretail, Speckled Trout, or Red Spot, is a charr.

      Red spots along sides, with an irregular lighter color circle surrounding each spot. Front of lower fins pink or red, edged with white. Vermicular, or wavy markings on back, distinguish the brook trout from all others. The tail is square and unforked.

      Rainbow Trout. A true trout. A wide pink lateral stripe usually identifies the rainbow—but in open lakes with sandy bottoms and in some streams the color is very faint. Spots are black, without surrounding circles of light color, as in the brook, brown, and Dolly Varden. Young rainbows under eight or nine inches are much different in general appearance than adult fish. Nose is blunt and rounded, eye prominent, tail somewhat forked and poorly developed, and the sides are covered with dark blotches or parr markings instead of the rainbow stripe of the grown fish. The adult has sharper nose, small eye, and fairly square tail.

      Brown Trout. A true trout. May be distinguished from both the Eastern Brook and the Dolly Varden by the black spots on its back. Although having red spots on the sides, the Brown is unlike the Eastern Brook in its belly fin coloration, the fins lacking the red, edged with white, of the Brook Trout. The Brown has a flat vomer, the bone forming the front part of the roof of the mouth, which is supplied with teeth, while the Brook Trout has a boat shaped vomer, which has no teeth.

      Dolly Varden, also called Western Brook, and Bull Trout, is the only native Western charr. Resembles both the Eastern Brook and the Laker in general appearance. Tail slightly forked. Spots are red, with background lighter than the body of the fish. Easily distinguished from the Eastern Brook Trout by the lack of vermicular, or worm-like wavy markings on the back.

      Lake Trout, often called Laker, Mackinaw, Gray Trout, and, in New England, Togue. Closely related to the charrs, it has spots lighter than the body color. Easily distinguished from the Brook Trout and Brown Trout by the lack of red in the spots. Has no red, pink, or other bright colors.

      SKETCHES FROM HUNTING AND FISHING

      Cutthroat. Readily recognized by a distinct red or crimson V on the throat. Although rainbows have a somewhat similar marking sometimes, it is less distinct, and more pink than bright red. Has a narrow band of small teeth on hyoid bone at base of tongue, which teeth are lacking in the Rainbow, with which some anglers confuse it, due to its black spotted back.

      Steelhead. Many anglers refer to both the sea run rainbow and the sea run cutthroat as rainbows. However, the true steelhead is generally accepted as the rainbow gone to sea. Silvery, and with spots few and indistinct, when fresh run from the sea into Western coastal streams, he lacks the lateral rainbow stripe of pink, but that often comes back later, while he is in fresh water. Distinguished from the sea-run cutthroat by the lack of small teeth on the hyoid bone at the base of the tongue. The head seems smaller in proportion to the fish, and more pointed, than in the strictly fresh water rainbow.

      Salient Salmon Facts

      The Atlantic Salmon and its landlocked forms, are the only members of the salmon family native to Eastern America.

      Unlike the Pacific salmon, the Atlantic salmon doesn’t die after spawning, but returns again and again from the ocean to its native stream for reproduction.

      Atlantic salmon, according to most anglers, do not feed while in fresh water, and take the fly only out of curiosity, or playfulness, or anger. Other anglers deny this claim, and maintain that salmon do, and will eat insects, etc., while in streams. These fish, taken on rod and reel, go from five to thirty pounds normally, although fish forty pounds and over are taken every season.

      The landlocked salmon and the Ouananiche (pronounced Wah-nah-neesh, with the accent on the first syllable), are both true Atlantic salmon, but do not migrate to the sea, even in lakes connected to it by streams. The landlocked was originally native to Maine only, and the Ouananiche to the Lake St. John and Saguenay regions of Canada, but both have been transplanted extensively to other regions, in New England and New York. Landlocks have also been taken to many lakes in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain States, but on the whole not too successfully. This non-migratory salmon is famous for its gameness, and will take flies, minnows, spoons, and other moving lures.

      Anglers may readily distinguish the landlock and Ouananiche from the Atlantic salmon by its smaller size, chunkier build, darker color, more conspicuous spots, and larger fins and tail in proportion to size.

      Landlocks generally weigh from 2 pounds up to 7 or 8, although 10 and 12 pounders are sometimes taken. The Ouananiche is somewhat smaller, with the maximum 8 to 10 pounds.

      The Pacific Chinook or Tyee Salmon is known by many other names, such as king, quinnat, spring, Columbia River, salmon, etc. It is the largest Pacific salmon, often going over forty and fifty pounds, and has been caught weighing over 100 pounds by commercial fishermen, although the rod and reel record is 83 pounds. This salmon is taken by anglers in both salt and fresh water. It dies after spawning in the headwaters of rivers, sometimes 1000 miles from its home in the sea!

      The Pacific Silver, or Coho, salmon, remains near the shore while in the ocean, and is the nearest of the Western salmon in appearance and fighting tactics to the Atlantic salmon. Next to the Chinook it is the largest Pacific salmon, and like the former, may be taken on rod and reel in both salt and fresh water. They run from 10 to 20 pounds, and sometimes reach 30 pounds and slightly over. Like all Pacific salmon they die after spawning in fresh water.

      Trout Trickers and Takers Extraordinary!

      I never met any trout fisherman who had ever used an old and time tested trick I have employed for many years—the Trout Cocktail. On the first small hook of a trout worming gang I put a small cricket or hopper, on the second hook a small wiggly piece of worm, on the third a small chip of cut bait, throat latch of a minnow, small minnow tail, or fish eye.

      This, drifted naturally down stream on greased line, ungreased leader, brings ’em out when other methods fail.

      Another unorthodox but highly successful fly rig for me is a very small dry fly for a dropper, about three feet above a wet fly or small streamer, fished on a short line.

      If this doesn’t work, reverse the rig. Use a big dry fly for a floater, about eighteen inches, to three feet above a tiny wet fly, on a greased line, floated down from upstream, and allowed to go downstream also, as far as possible. I have taken trout after trout on this rig by striking instantly, at the slightest quiver of the floating fly. In deep pools use from three to five or six feet of light leader between the floater and the wet fly.

      Unorthodox though it may seem, many times in retrieving this combination when it has floated down stream, I have had trout hit the big floater on its way up against the current! But far more often, coming upstream, the wet has proved the taking fly. Be prepared for a rise on either fly, however, at any moment.

      When you are near the seacoast and can keep live salt water shrimp alive on trips to nearby trout streams or lakes you’ll find this bait about the most taking one you ever used for any and all kinds of trout. Use an eight or ten hook, with a single shrimp if they’re adult size, two on the hook if small, and be sure they’re alive and transparent.

      Best way to keep shrimp alive is to pack a basket (large grape basket) with sawdust and ice, and place only a couple of gills of shrimp, in burlap wet with sea water, folded up around the shrimp and laid flat on the sawdust, but not touching the ice.

      This, of course, is for boat fishing, or fishing from landings. When stream fishing use a small paper ice cream box with flap covers, packed with sawdust and ice, with holes in the sides and bottom to allow draining off ice water, and shrimps in sea water wet burlap at the top. Tie in such a way in your creel that box can’t tip over.

      Shrimp are, when transparent and alive, one of the world’s best baits also for both kinds of bass, landlock salmon, and white perch. Yellow perch, blue gills and horn pout will take them eagerly when white, and absolutely dead.

      Hook shrimp through the tails to keep them liveliest. This is a delicate job—be careful to hook from the inside of the curving tail right out through the outside of the bend, just once, leaving hook point projecting.

      GOONS ARE SO CURIOUS that some trappers hang glittering objects over traps for bait, and rely on the coon investigating and stepping into the trap.

      Trout Tricks That Tally!

      SUCCESSFUL SLEIGHTS UNKNOWN TO MOST ANGLERS

      SKETCHES FROM OUTDOORS

      The Mud Ball

      If there’s a big brown or brook trout that resists all your cajoling, try this, and chances are mighty good you’ll land him.

      Mix up some wet earth and clay into a stiff paste. Surround a good lively night crawler, or worm, that you have hooked lightly, with a ball of this. Lower it silently into the pool or deep spot where the big fish lurks. Then keep quiet, holding your rod motionless. The current will wash the mud and earth off, and the worm will emerge by degrees and wiggles. No hungry trout, suspicious or not, can withstand such a perfectly natural presentation of a perfect snack!

      The Dropping Worm or Fly

      Hook worm as shown, so that the hook won’t catch on the grass or branches. Then make a very gentle cast, stopping the bait above the grass or branches that overhang the deep part of the pool, and allowing it to fall gently. Wait. Count sixty, keeping absolutely motionless. Then gently pull the worm off into the water. If there’s a trout present he’ll grab it!

      The bait falls into the water much more naturally than when you drop it in direct,

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